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by jmkb 6y ago
"Black" was a label applied to persons of many different cultures in the context of colonialism and slavery. In some places, such as the USA, Black became a cultural identity because it was a legal one; these people and their offs
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by jmkb 6y ago
> there’s no way to trickle a toilet If you have a tank toilet you might be able to adjust the floater (bend the rod upwards) so it never quite turns off the supply valve. Failing that, you can just manually prop the flap open with somet
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by jmkb 6y ago
OSM is like a bunch of volunteers refurbing a city park, all working different schedules, with no manager. Alice starts sanding off rust on one end of a swingset. Then Bob shows up and starting painting the other end that hasn't yet be
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by jmkb 6y ago
Mapping OSM in NYC, I've run into about a dozen one-way streets that have changed direction at some point, sometimes for just a block or two.
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by jmkb 6y ago
I think that would be even more likely to snag on something. edit -- but of course danging by something other than a neck might be preferable...
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by jmkb 6y ago
My cat will remove them within 20 minutes, never to be found. I've reluctantly settled on the non-safety collar after losing a half dozen. Although if I equipped one with RFID I could at least have a shot at locating his stash!
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by jmkb 6y ago
In particular, the current NYC vaccination phase includes all "public-facing" grocery store workers (but not restaurant workers!) Not sure how that plays with stores like Dollar General, which carry some groceries. Don't beli
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by jmkb 6y ago
It's a writing-focused word processor for MacOS and iOS. https://ulysses.app/
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by jmkb 6y ago
The closest thing to "reveal codes" in Word is to save as .rtf and open in a text editor. But you're in for a wild ride.
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by jmkb 6y ago
And creating a nuisance.
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by jmkb 6y ago
You're quite correct, I should not have described GNOME maps as offline, and my edit window has expired. Rats. OsmAnd+ (or the free OsmAnd~ version available on FDroid) is definitely the primo consumer-facing OSM-powered map. I haven&#
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by jmkb 6y ago
The "How did you contribute" dashboard from Pascal Neis [0] is a good place to explore some possible metrics. IMO some good predictors of mapping quality are: - Focus on specific regions - Both creation and deletion of map feature
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by jmkb 6y ago
1. Not currently, the only semi-decent offline OSM map for desktop OS is Gnome Maps. [0] 2. You can't configure the way maps appear on openstreetmap.org. You (or someone) will have to render the map tiles to display all names in Englis
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by jmkb 6y ago
(Although with Doyle in the giant head roster, the Thinker's choice of Poe to deduce Batman's identity is notable... speaks to Bats' gothic nature I guess.)
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by jmkb 6y ago
Hah, I'm sure you're right. The mustache threw me. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - A. Conan Doyle
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by jmkb 6y ago
I think the 4th head in the Batman comic is supposed to be Arthur Christopher Benson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Benson
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by jmkb 6y ago
The Toshiba T1000 was the first portable computer I ever used, touched, or saw. It was a miracle: LCD screen, battery power, real keyboard. It felt like something snatched from a time traveler. (Except it booted from MS-DOS 2.1 hard-coded i
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by jmkb 6y ago
See also: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.7113593&lon=-74.0034646&zoom=...
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by jmkb 6y ago
Also highly hyped, also bombed, but severely influential. IMO has a better claim to "coolest" than the Mac cube does.
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by jmkb 6y ago
"Damage control" would be my guess.
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by jmkb 6y ago
Last century "network" and "web" were metaphors that meant nothing to the uninitiated -- I feel that ".onion" has a shot.
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by jmkb 6y ago
Brave bought the brave.com domain from the band Brave Combo, whose homepage was listed as http://brave.com/bo since the early days of the web. Last year I was pleased to see that they kept a redirect in place from https:&#
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by jmkb 6y ago
Meanwhile, tiny Lesotho (a landlocked enclave entirely within, and distinctly less affluent than, South Africa) has a passionately active OSM community uniting locals on the ground and international mappers who use satellite imagery. Last y
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by jmkb 6y ago
Cobble Hill, corner of Court Street and Congress, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6414917575 edit -- I guess I should close it on OSM ;)
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by jmkb 6y ago
I doubt this will be any kind of soul-searching moment for the OSM community. OSM contributors make use of hundreds of different imagery sources from volunteer, corporate, and government sources. Few mappers will be particularly interested
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by jmkb 6y ago
Admins, consider changing the link to https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-F... -- the current link implies that this is directly related to OpenStreetMap, when in truth it's j
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by jmkb 6y ago
Also really enjoyed Satyajit Ray's storyboards for the Apu Trilogy. Sketchier than Kurasawa's, but thrilling nonetheless and greatly increasing the pleasure of watching or rewatching the films. Unfortuately I can't can't
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by jmkb 7y ago
> For years now, cooking has been marketed as a waste of time and effort like hand-washing clothes (think fast food advertising). Maybe that's the marketing message that hits some demographics, but there's also plenty of market
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by jmkb 7y ago
The Swiss topos are seriously beautiful. Half of the fun of hiking in the Alps is collecting these meticulous hand-illustrated maps. They are shamelessly artistic, and at the same time give a much better feel for the character of the landsc
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by jmkb 7y ago
And the middle digit was the biggest factor in dialing length, because before 1995 is was required to be 0 or 1. But the fastest "0" area code (202, Washington DC) was still two pulses faster than the slowest "1" area co

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